ADOLFO, CRIS PATRICK N.

PHILO 101
BSMARE-2ND YEAR EDP CODE: 72488

PRELIM PROJECT

The Scenario:

The reliance on digital communication in the business world surely has created
ethical dilemmas involving information access and privacy. You could find yourself in a
situation of needing to get information from a coworker’s computer when that person
was out of the office. You know you’re not supposed to access others computers, but
this coworker is a friend of yours and she has shared her password with you in the past.
When you login, you discover that your coworker has been saving customer’s credit
card data on the computer, which is a violation of company policy. If you turn in your
coworker, you could also get in trouble since you only gained the information through
violating a company policy. If you don’t turn in your coworker, the people whose credit
card information she saved could be victimized by fraud or theft.
 The moral dilemma in the situation is that if a person will turn in his/her co-
worker who had saving the credentials of the customer. It is disadvantaging yourself to
do what is right. This is a difficult dilemma to face, as is the case with all ethical dilemmas. If
you choose to keep yourself out of trouble, will the fact that you know what your coworker has
done continue to bother you? Will you be responsible in some way if customers are defrauded
as a result of your coworker’s actions? It is best to do what has the lesser ever which is to turn-in
your co-worker.